When @lizmat asked me to write a post for the Raku advent calendar I was initially a bit at a loss. I have spent most of the year not writing Raku but working on my own language Funktal, a postfix functional language that compiles to Uxntal, the stack-based assembly language for the tiny Uxn virtual machine. But as Raku is nothingContinue reading “Day 4 – Embedding a stack-based programming language in Raku”
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Day 6: Immutable data structures and reduction in Raku
For a little compiler I’ve been writing, I felt increasingly the need for immutable data structures to ensure that nothing was passed by references between passes. I love Perl and Raku but I am a functional programmer at heart, so I prefer map and reduce over loops. It bothered me to run reductions on aContinue reading “Day 6: Immutable data structures and reduction in Raku”
Day 17 – Generic data structure traversals with roles and introspection
Generic datastructure traversals with roles and introspection I am a lambdacamel and therefore I like to adapt concepts and techniques from functional programming, and in particular from the Haskell language, to Raku. One of the techniques that I use a lot is generic traversals, also known as “Scrap Your Boilerplate” after the title of theContinue reading “Day 17 – Generic data structure traversals with roles and introspection”
Raku Advent Calendar 